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Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in United States history ( Wikipedia ). I am going to stray considerably from the topic of business rules today, but I'd like to share some information on personal backups for disaster recovery and hear your thoughts. If you are anything like me you've amassed a lot of digital information over the past twenty odd years, some of which is "mission... [Continue Reading]

James Taylor has kicked this perennial anthill again and I felt compelled to chip in. What are your experiences, out there in the so-called "real world"? Are you seduced by the engineering "fusion" of BPM and rules or do you think it ignores some of the business and people aspects of managing business rules and processes?

I have been talking to lots of people lately about how to integrate NUnit with Rules for .NET for the purpose of doing regression testing with rulesets. I will be following up shortly with some concrete examples of how to do this. In the interim, I am intersted in what you have done on your end. Please post a comment that describes your solution and how it is used. Chris Berg

Various ILOGers are putting up some very interesting videos on JRules and Rules for .NET. Try these web searches for example: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ILOG%20BRMS http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/ILOG+BRMS http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ILOG+BRMS&aq=f

I am looking for a developer to join the Rule Studio for Java team. Have you got some, or all, of the following qualities? Smart Get things done Passionate about building high-quality software Significant Eclipse plugin development experience Good spoken and written English Spoken French Based near Paris, France If you would like to apply please send your CV to:

I just stumbled across a blog by Shamim Ahmed Bhuiyan (Ph.D) describing his work with JRules. The blog covers quite a lot of ground but mostly concentrates on integrating the RES runtime (particularly Decision Services) with different application stacks. Thanks for sharing your tips and tricks!

I will be co-presenting with Joel Cheuoua at IBM Impact, May 3-8, 2009 in Las Vegas . The talk is titled "Business Rule Management: From Business Policy to Deployed Applications" . We've decided we are going to take to the high-wire again (without a safety net?) and build a BRMS application based on an audience member's domain model and rules -- live on stage! As a presenter it is pretty frightening stuff, but it should make a nice... [Continue Reading]

Hats off to the business rules support team! This morning the email below caught my eye, as it typifies the high-quality diagnostic work of the support team. Jun is helping troubleshoot an out of memory issue with Rule Team Server. A key component of the success of JRules is the ability to support customers and engineers in the field, and filing high-quality (actionable) bug reports for R&D when necessary. In my previous email I gave some... [Continue Reading]

Or, "The Right Tool for the Job"... Time spent evaluating a problem before jumping to a solution technology is always time well spent! I encourage the developers on my team to write less code, not more -- and that often requires a broad understanding of technology (rather than just deep): from fundamental algorithms, to available 3rd-party libraries, license restrictions, good web search skills, a network of personal contacts, and the... [Continue Reading]

As you can imagine, Dialog 09 was a whirl of an event and a big success. I presented a technical session on the benefits of integrating JRules with WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (WDPE). The first portion of the presentation covered some of the high-level benefits you can have when combining BRMS and BPM. Not only will architects be gaining reuse as part of the SOA infrastructure, but much of the volatility within processes can be managed... [Continue Reading]